About the Author
Cyrus Farivar
سیروس فریور
English: [suh-ROOS FAR-ih-var]
Persian: [see-ROOS-eh fàr-ee-VÀR]
Freelance Technology Journalist
Freelance Radio Reporter/Producer
Author, "The Internet of Elsewhere"
cfarivar [at] cfarivar [dot] org
Current location: Oakland, CATwitter
Africa Archive
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NYT: Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow
Posted on January 14, 2008 | No CommentsNYT: In Mauritania, lobsters vanished years ago. The catch of octopus — now the most valuable species — is four-fifths of what it should be if it were not overexploited. A 2002 report by the European Commission found that the most marketable fish species off... -
U.S. To Woo Africans With Naval Diplomacy
Posted on November 12, 2007 | No CommentsReuters: DAKAR (Reuters) – As it steams down the West African coast, the USS Fort McHenry faces one of its toughest battles: to convince skeptical Africans their continent can benefit from more U.S. military involvement. The 600-foot (185-metre) ship, which saw combat in the first... -
Eritrea in the news
Posted on October 16, 2007 | No CommentsLAT: ASMARA, Eritrea — This struggling, low-profile nation is doing something virtually unheard of in Africa. It’s turning down foreign aid. With a president who vows not to lead another “spoon-fed” African country “enslaved” by international donors, Eritrea, a small, secretive nation on the Horn... -
What I’m Reading
Posted on August 2, 2007 | 2 CommentsCanoe.ca New Pornographers battle Internet leaks on their own terms July 30 2007 “Personally, I don’t have a huge problem with leaks, I’m of the belief that if people get your record for free but they come to your show and buy a T-shirt or... -
“Africa’s Storied Colleges, Jammed and Crumbling”
Posted on May 19, 2007 | 1 CommentThere’s a fantastic piece in today’s Times about the sad, sorry state of universities in Africa, and particularly, Senegal: Africa’s best universities, the grand institutions that educated a revolutionary generation of nation builders and statesmen, doctors and engineers, writers and intellectuals, are collapsing. It is... -
Dan Zhu, on Rosso, Mauritania
Posted on January 31, 2007 | 1 CommentDan says: Sometimes I get so caught up in Rosso that I start to think Rosso is Mauritania. What I’m trying to say is, sometimes I think the rest of Mauritania is just like Rosso. That, of course, is completely false. Rosso is the San... -
New pictures from Senegal, Mauritania
Posted on January 31, 2007 | No CommentsI just uploaded a bunch more pictures to my Flickr account. Go check ‘em out. This one here is my name written in chalk on the wall next to my old bedroom door at UGB. I’m amazed that it’s survived five years. -
My weekend in Saint-Louis and Rosso (Mauritania)
Posted on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment* In 2002, I wrote my name in chalk on the wall outside my dorm room door at the Université Gaston Berger. In 2007, I confirmed that it’s still there. * Saint-Louis is basically the same as I remember it. There are some minor changes,... -
Shafer skewers Kapuściński
Posted on January 26, 2007 | 2 CommentsSlate: Scratch a KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski enthusiast and he’ll insist that everybody who reads the master’s books understands from context that not everything in them is to be taken literally. This is a bold claim, as KapuÅ›ciÅ„ski’s work draws its power from the fantastic and presumably true... -
Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932 – 2007
Posted on January 24, 2007 | 5 CommentsBBC: Poland’s most celebrated journalist and non-fiction writer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, has died in Warsaw, aged 74, after a heart operation. I first discovered Kapuscinski after being given a copy of The Shadow of the Sun by my good friends Alan Wiig and Brynna Jacobson shortly...
